Maybe some Americans were serious when they threatened they would move to Canada if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump became successful in his often polarizing campaign for the White House.
Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the U.S. presidency turned markedly higher.
Some users in the United States, Canada and Asia saw an internal server error message when trying to access the www.cic.gc.ca/ website.
Officials for the ministry could not immediately be reached for comment, but the website’s problems were noted by many on Twitter.
Sounds like a joke, but the Canadian Immigration site – https://t.co/0J7yHhFDAn is down due to overloading server issues. #ElectionNight
— Kristian Sturt (@FootieWriter) November 9, 2016
The Canadian Immigration website has now actually crashed. #ElectionNight
— Emily Andras (@emtothea) November 9, 2016
After some Americans, often jokingly, said would move to Canada if Trump was elected, the idea has been taken up by some Canadian communities. In February, the island of Cape Breton on Canada’s Atlantic coast marketed itself as a tranquil refuge for Americans seeking to escape should Trump capture the White House.
